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What's really interesting about this is that he doesn't actually have the disease. Due to genetic testing, he may have an increased probability of getting it.

>Many philanthropists have funded research into diseases they themselves have been diagnosed with. But Brin is likely the first who, based on a genetic test, began funding scientific research in the hope of escaping a disease in the first place.




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